The Centre has rejected the application for voluntary retirement of Rajendra Kumar, former principal secretary to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, and has approved the CBI plea to prosecute him in a corruption case.
The prosecution sanction comes on the back of a charge-sheet filed by the CBI against Kumar in a case relating to criminal conspiracy to cause loss of Rs 12 crore to the Delhi government in the award of contracts between 2007 and 2015.
Kumar has protested his innocence and claimed that he was pressured to "implicate" Kejriwal but the CBI has insisted that it was acting on the basis of evidence which it claimed was strong enough to warrant prosecution.
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Rajendra Kumar not to get voluntary retirement
By IndianMandarins - 2017-02-15 09:53:55
The Centre has rejected the application for voluntary retirement of Rajendra Kumar, former principal secretary to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, and has approved the CBI plea to prosecute him in a corruption case.
The prosecution sanction comes on the back of a charge-sheet filed by the CBI against Kumar in a case relating to criminal conspiracy to cause loss of Rs 12 crore to the Delhi government in the award of contracts between 2007 and 2015.
Kumar has protested his innocence and claimed that he was pressured to "implicate" Kejriwal but the CBI has insisted that it was acting on the basis of evidence which it claimed was strong enough to warrant prosecution.
